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Response To The Outsiders

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Dear S. E. Hinton, In class this year we read “The Outsiders” and I absolutely loved it! You are a very talented author. The fact that you were able to write a best time selling novel in highschool that nearly fifty year later people are still crazy about is incredible. One thing about the book that stands out is the emotion. Your book “The Outsiders” is a phenomenal piece of art that makes you cry and then laugh two sentences later! It was hard to lose those characters but they made the story stronger and made us feel the emotion of loss through the perspective of the other characters. A different emotion filled situation …show more content…

The amount of care and detail that was put into these characters is evident and makes us love all of them wholeheartedly. It was heartwarming to see the gang members working together and to be able to comprehend a small portion of their bond, proving that not all families have to share blood. “The Outsiders” is such a fantastic book that it is impossible not to love it! It is nice to have a story that’s not all sappy and sweet, yet is not full of violence. We also learned life lessons throughout the story such as making us think about why we fight, how we don’t always see the reason why someone made a certain choice and that it’s important to stay with your family and friends till the very end. When talking about positive points to take from the book another example is that anyone can and should be a hero. Everyone has something or one that they care and love and no one is too tough to help that thing. Dally showed us that and that anyone can be a hero by going and helping the kids and saving Ponyboy and Johnny from the flames. Being a hero does not mean you have to change the whole world, by doing the little things you can be someone’s …show more content…

It would be interesting to hear about their parents jobs and their life at school as well as at home. In the novel we got to learn about Mickey Mouse, Sodapop’s horse and it was intriguing as would be getting to learn about other pets or fun things in general that they did as kids. The knowledge to what we lack insight on would make a great prequel and I feel like there is a lot more that we don’t

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